* 1823 – Joseph Medill, American editor, publisher, and politician ( d. 1899 )

* 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author ( d. 1966 )

* 1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian author ( d. 1996 )

* 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer ( d. 1980 )

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

* 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter ( d. 1995 )

* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )

* 1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1899 )

* Haliotis walallensis Stearns, 1899 – the northern green abalone or flat abalone – synonym: Haliotis fulgens var.

* 1899 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist ( d. 1988 )

Some early scientists such as Georg Ernst Stahl ( 1659-1734 ) and Francisque Bouillier ( 1813 – 1899 ) had supported a form of animism which life and mind, the directive principle in evolution and growth, holding that all cannot be traced back to chemical and mechanical processes, but that there is a directive force which guides energy without altering its amount.

* 1899 – Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer ( d. 1963 )

* 1899 – Charlie Hall, English actor ( d. 1959 )

* Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 1874 – 1899 )

* 1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1899 – Andrei Platonov, Russian author ( d. 1951 )

* 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.

In 1899, Ladislas Deutsch ( Laszlo Detre ) ( 1874 – 1939 ) named the hypothetical substances halfway between bacterial constituents and antibodies " substances immunogenes ou antigenes ".

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

Heinrich Kiepert ( July 31, 1818-April 21, 1899 ), German geographer, was born at Berlin as the son of a wealthy businessman.

** Heinrich Bassermann, Richard Rothe als praktischer Theologe ( 1899 )

Tiarks married in Hamburg on 18 November 1899 Emmie ( Emmy ) Marie Franziska Brödermann of Hamburg, Germany ( 15 February 1875-27 July 1943 ), daughter of Eduard Matthias Brödermann ( Hamburg, 27 February 1842-Hamburg, 28 February 1904 ), merchant, and wife ( Hamburg, 3 May 1872 ) Ramona Luisa Clara Ignacia Störzel ( Grabow, 2 June 1852-Hamburg, 24 June 1939 ); paternal granddaughter of Carl Matthias Brödermann ( Hamburg, 28 April 1789-Eimsbüttel, 10 June 1854 ), a merchant, married firstly in Havana on 16 March 1828 Anna Oom ( Lisbon, 1 September 1787-Hamburg, 28 February 1837 ), and second wife ( Hamburg, 18 December 1838 ) Marianne Kunhardt ( Hamburg, 10 March 1815-Eimsbüttel, 23 February 1882 ) and maternal granddaughter of Heinrich Eduard Störzel ( Grabow, 26 September 1819-Hamburg, 2 April 1885 ) and wife ( Durango, Mexico, 15 December 1847 ) María Ramona Redo Balmaseda ( Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, 14 October 1830-Brannenburg, 23 October 1914 ); and great-granddaughter of Johann Hinrich Brödermann, Bürger and shipbroker, and wife Anna Senglemann, Georg Wilhelm Kunhardt and wife Anna Maria Schultz and Diego Redo and wife María Francisca Balmaseda.

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

* Heinrich Rau ( 1899 – 1961 )

Heinz Heinrich Nordhoff ( 6 January 1899 – 12 April 1968 ) was a German engineer famous for his leadership of the Volkswagen company as it was rebuilt after World War II.

Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann ( October 2, 1826 – March 24, 1899 ) was a German physicist known mostly for his literary work.

* Heinrich Blücher ( 1899 – 1970 ), philosopher

Heinrich Blücher ( 29 January 1899 – 30 October 1970 ) was a German poet and philosopher.

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg ( July 8, 1839-May 27, 1899 ), Austrian historian, was born in Vienna, and in 1865 became professor of history at the university of Lemberg.

* Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann ( 1877 – 1899 ) ( as Annalen der Physik und Chemie )

Its fragments were assembled and translated first by George Smith as The Chaldean Account of Genesis ; the name of its hero was corrected to Atra-Hasis by Heinrich Zimmern in 1899.

Krøyer: Heinrich Hirschsprung ( 1899, The Hirschsprung Collection )

Von Diederichs was recalled to Berlin in 1899 to serve as chief of the admiralty staff ; he was succeeded at Tsingtao by Rear Admiral Prince Heinrich of Prussia.

In 1899, he played d ' Artagnan in The King's Musketeers, and in 1900 he played Heinrich in The Sunken Bell and Sir Geoffrey Bloomfield in Drifting Apart.

In 1899, the visiting Prince Heinrich of Prussia expressed his astonishment to Emperor Gojong at a traditional archery demonstration.

In 1841-2 Loew accompanied Heinrich Kiepert ( 1818 – 1899 ), a celebrated geographer, and August Schoenborn to the Near East.

:: B. Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker ( 1822 – 1899 ), Protestant theologian and chancellor of University of Tübingen

* 1899 – 1914: Heinrich Hubert Aloysius Voß ( Voss ) † ( 12 Apr 1899 Appointed-3 Mar 1914 Died )

* 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German artist ( b. 1820 )

* 1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician ( b. 1899 )

* Robert Bunsen ( 1811 – 1899 ), German chemist, after whom is named:

* 1899 – Gustav Gründgens, German actor ( d. 1963 )

It was popularized by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin ( 1856 – 1926 ) in 1893, 1896 and 1899 in his first detailed textbook descriptions of a condition that would eventually be reframed into a substantially different disease concept and relabeled as schizophrenia.

* 1899 – Erich Kästner, German writer ( d. 1974 )

Spain sold the islands to Germany in 1899 under the terms of the German – Spanish Treaty of that year.

Major influences were Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and, most importantly, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born German writer who was one of the founders of " scientific " anti-Semitism, and whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( 1899 ) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.

* 1943 – Wilfrid B. Israel, German activist ( b. 1899 )

* 1820 – Joseph Wolf, German artist ( d. 1899 )

* 1942 – Ernst Scheller, German Nazi politician ( b. 1899 )

* 1899 – Ernst Scheller, German politician ( d. 1942 )

* 1899 – Gustav Heinemann, German politician ( d. 1976 )

In 1899, the Imperial Naval High Command was replaced by the German Imperial Admiralty Staff ( Admiralstab ) responsible for planning, the training of officers, and naval intelligence.

* 1899 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi official ( d. 1972 )

* 1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.

* Ludwig Jacoby, ( 1813 – 1874 ), born in Altstrelitz, an author and Methodist clergyman, commissioned as a missionary to St. Louis, Missouri, by the founder of the German Methodist Church in America, William Nast ( 1807 – 1899 ).

Following the Spanish – American War of 1898, Spain ceded Guam to the United States and sold the remainder of the Marianas ( along with the Caroline Islands ) to Imperial Germany under the German – Spanish Treaty of 1899.

In 1899, the German imperial government assumed direct control of the territory, thereafter known as German New Guinea.

* SS Rhein ( 1899 ), an ocean liner for North German Lloyd

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

German, British and American warships in Apia harbour, 1899.